Psalms 106:28

SIN NO. 6

This was the disastrous worship of the Moabite god, Baal, whom Delitzsch identified as the "Priapus of Greek and Roman mythology,"[19] the same being essentially a worship of the male sex organ, as the name suggests.

"They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor,

And ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings;

And the plague brake in upon them.

Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment;

And so the plague was stayed.

And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness,

Unto all generations forevermore."

The tragic record of this wholesale rebellion against God is given in Numbers 25, concerning which reference is made to Vol. 3 of my Pentateuchal commentaries, pp. 489-496.

"They ate the sacrifices for the dead" (Psalms 106:28). "This statement is interpreted best as a reference to the idol itself as the dead thing."[20]